Technofeminist Pedagogy & Community Based Learning
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brittany_cottrillBreakout Session: Technofeminist Pedagogy & Community-Based Learning
Session Leaders: Erin Dietel-McLaughlin & Kristine Blair
Institutional Context
What is the nature of the relationship between your home institution and the
surrounding communities?
What review or approval process is required by your home institution?
How have community partnerships generally been pursued and/or perceived by your
institution, department, or program?
What opportunities currently exist on your campus for developing community-based
learning projects?
What is the overall climate of technological support on your campus? How about in the
surrounding community?
To what extent has technology been a key component of community-based learning
initiatives at your institution? Is technology part of the service? Part of the reflective
process? Something else?
Curriculum/Learning Outcomes
Are you developing a version of an existing course? Are you developing an entirely new
course? One unit of a course? Or, are you visualizing a project outside of the traditional
coursework setting?
What should students/participants be able to “do” by way of this course or learning
initiative?
How will the community partnership or service component of this project support your
projected learning outcomes?
How might technology be used to support those outcomes?
What major assignments do you anticipate requiring as part of the curriculum for this
project? What role might technology play in supporting the learning outcomes of those
assignments?
What role will reflection play in this partnership? How can technology help to support
that reflective process?
How will students be graded? What impact will the “service” component have on their
grade?
Community Partner Profile
Do you already have a community partner in mind for this project? If so, what do you
know about that partner? If not, what opportunities exist for helping to identify
potential community partners?
How will this community-based learning initiative benefit the community partner? What
expectations might the community partner have going into this project?
How will the community partner’s perspectives be reflected in curricular materials?
Resources
What kinds of technological resources or training do you anticipate needing to
effectively implement this project? (for example: access to video cameras, computer lab
space, design software, etc)
What financial resources might be available to help implement the initiative?
Ways to Integrate Technology into Community-Based Learning
Technology as Feminist Action
o using technology (social media, videos, video games, blogs, Web-based tools, etc) to
complicate or support readings that speak to issues of gender, race, class, disability,
equity, etc
o Designing technology-rich learning spaces to promote equity through functional, critical,
and rhetorical literacies (job training at women’s shelters, workshops for seniors, etc)
o Using technology as a means to promote awareness for feminist issues (violence against
women, GLBTQ issues, discrimination in the workplace, women’s health issues, etc)
o Example: Digital Mirror Camp for Girls
(http://www.bgfile.com/feature_short/campus/digitalmirror/)
Technology as Service
o creating a website or social media presence for a community partner
o training community members in particular technoliteracies
o Example: Miriam’s Kitchen FB page (http://www.facebook.com/miriamskitchen?
sk=wall)
Technology as Reflection
o using blogs as reflective journaling spaces
o developing video diaries or recorded “This I Believe” essays
o Example: Doreen Piano's Writing After Katrina,
(http://www.nolacitymuseum.org/collections/show/13)
Technology as Community
o creating virtual spaces for discussion and participation
o Example: “Service Learning & Virtual Worlds” (http://fie-
conference.org/fie2010/papers/1183.pdf)
Technology as Management
o establishing databases or using existing databases to link institution with community
partners
o conducting assessments with online surveys,
o using listservs, social networking, etc. to foster communication with partners
o Example: Servenet.org database (http://servenet.org/Home/tabid/316/Default.aspx)
